"Over my career as a painter, the landscape has held my interest as a forum for organizing space and light within the graphic language. However, as the years pass, I find myself drawn more and more toward landscape painting as metaphor rather than record – “Who are we?” gradually taking over from “Where are we?”.

While I have started using news photos as reference, the images generally stem from places that I have photographed or drawn.

These places have affected me greatly, but, once back in the studio, my having been there interests me less than using the image as a starting point for creating an atmosphere and mood wherein a soul might wander discovering itself.

Mostly, the landscapes are deserted, a human presence being implied only by our moving visually through the spaces and forms. Increasingly, I am adding figures who move through these barren and rocky spaces at the world’s edge. We observe them waiting, deciding, or striding along their respective ways."